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Saturday, August 17, 2013

Thrills expected at air show - The West Milford Messenger | WEST MILFORD — Pack up the family and head over to the Greenwood Lake Airport this weekend for the fifth annual Greenwood Lake Air Show. The festivities begin on Friday and continue through Sunday with headliner Kirby Chambliss, a five-time U.S. national aerobatic champion leading the way. Chambliss is a two-time Red Bull Air Race World Champion. Justin Lewis will fly the FLS Microjet, which is listed in the Guiness Book of World Records as the world's smallest jet. The Alabama Boys Comedy Team with Greg Koontz will land his Piper J3 Cub on a truck. Koontz will also perform aerobatics in his Extreme Decathlon. The Iron Eagle Aerobatics team fly two high performance biplanes in perfect unison. A very rare P51-C model Mustang will perform fly bys on Saturday and Sunday. Gary Ward, Kevin Russo and the Northeast Raiders Russian Warbird team round out the lineup....

Memories of Oklahoma legend take flight at Will Rogers & Wiley Post Fly-In - Tulsa World | The first time Martha Swartz visited the Will Rogers Memorial, it was as part of a field trip her Girl Scouts troop made to the Claremore landmark. That was also the last time Swartz had been to the memorial - until about four years ago. That's when Swartz, an Owasso resident and licensed pilot, decided she wanted to volunteer to help with the museum's annual Will Rogers & Wiley Post Fly-In...

Spanish champion aerobatic pilot killed in Velez-Malaga air crash - Olive Press | A PLANE crash near the Real Aeroclub Veleño in Velez-Malaga has left one dead and another seriously injured. The Yak-52 aerobatic plane crashed on Friday, at 13:50 hours onto a mango farm, a little more than ten meters from a rural housing and just a mile from the runway. Pilot Javier Fernandez, a prominent businessman from Granada, 52, was killed instantly, and his Brazilian friend, 50, died last night in Axarquia hospital....

Rare Spitfire, B-25 bomber to fly over air show - Vancouver Sun | On the ground and in the sky, this weekend's Chilliwack Flight Fest is shaping up to be one of the biggest in years, thanks in large part to another air show hundreds of kilometres away. Not only will the Chilliwack airport play host to a rare Spitfire fighter and B-25 bomber, but Sunday's preshow will feature a flyby by the Snowbirds aerobatics team, a CF-18 Hornet fighter and a military CC-150 transport jet...

Copper Props Fly-in wonderful - Daily Mining Gazette | To the editor: Thanks to all who turned out on a beautiful Sunday for the EAA Chapter 1270 annual Copper Props Fly-In. It was a wonderful day to fly, 150 community members got a taste of flying with local pilots, the community support was great, all seemed to have a good time...

B-17 Aluminum Overcast at Ford Airport - WOOD-TV | CASCADE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) - You can take a ride aboard a restored B-17 bomber as its national tour makes a stop in West Michigan. The media will get its first look at the Aluminum Overcast on Thursday at the Gerald R. Ford International Airport in Cascade Township. Known as the Flying Fortress, the aircraft is one of the best-known military aircraft of the World War II era, according to a news release....

Tuskegee Airman to visit Palm Springs Air Museum - The Desert Sun | PALM SPRINGS — The oldest surviving Tuskegee Airman will be at the Palm Springs Air Museum Saturday. Lt. Col. Bob Friend, part of the first all-black pilot squadron to serve in World War II, will be at the museum at 1 p.m. on Saturday.He flew 142 combat missions in Europe and is one of about 45 left of the 992 original Tuskegee Airmen...

Salvage team begins Flying Tigers search - Global Times | A salvage team on Thursday started to retrieve an airplane that was flown by the Flying Tigers during World War II from beneath a lake in Southwest China's Yunnan Province. The Flying Tigers, officially known as the American Volunteer Group (AVG) of the Chinese air force, was a group composed of ex-pilots from the US military...

Air Zoo to Restore Lake Michigan-Retrieved FM-2 Wildcat - Warbirds News | We’ve been following the story of General Motors-built FM-2 Wildcat BuNo 57039, that was lost to the waters of Lake Michigan almost 70 years ago, from its retrieval from the bottom of Lake Michigan late last year, to it’s appearance most recently as the “before” plane next to a restored example at the Warbirds in Review program at EAA AirVenture 2013. The National Naval Aviation Museum (NNAM) of Pensacola, Florida, which owns the plane, annunced last week that it had selected the Air Zoo Museum of Kalamazoo, Michigan to restore the Warbird to her former glory....

Flight simulator at Air Museum is almost like the real thing - ReminderNews | As Ornella, Chadrick and RJ Ebanks walked around the New England Air Museum on Aug. 14, they learned about several planes used during World War II and throughout history. Though it was interesting for the Cayman Islands children, it was even more interesting to practice flying some of the planes....